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Authors: Robert A. Heinlein Heinlein Robert A.

Tags: scifi classic

Description: Great book.

2006-05-17

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Author: Aldous Huxley

Tags: classic culture warning

Description: ""Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian""Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come."...

2006-05-17

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Author: Mary Shelley

Tags: classic horror

2006-05-17

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Author: Harper Lee

Tags: classic

2006-05-17

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Author: John Steinbeck

Tags: classic

Description: I'm generally not one for "classics"I'm generally not one for "classics" but I liked this more than I thought I would....

2006-05-17

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Author: Douglas Adams

Tags: scifi classic funny hilarious

2005-11-11

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Status: I recommend

Author: Robert A. Heinlein

Tags: scifi classic politics liberty

2005-11-11

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Author: Ray Bradbury

Tags: scifi classic politics culture warning

2005-11-11

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Author: George Orwell

Tags: classic culture warning prophetic

Description: In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the ThoughtIn a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be....

2005-11-11